Twelve tiny homes.
One courtyard.
A neighborhood.
Haven turns vacant city land into a self-sustaining micro-neighborhood where formerly homeless neighbors cook dinner, share tools, and hold each other accountable.
"I slept in my car for eleven months. Last night I locked my own front door."
Marcus
14 months housed · Haven, Lot 7
Hand-painted markers. Someone's name on a tomato plant.
Lot 4 has a raised bed with kale, peppers, and a sign that says "Darnell's Cucumbers — do NOT touch." The garden started as a city compost pilot. It became the reason three neighbors wake up before 7am. When you grow something, you tend to stick around to see it come up.
She asked for a shelf. We built her a home.
Denise spent three winters cycling through the shelter system. She knew every intake form by heart. The first thing she asked for when she moved into Haven wasn't furniture. It was a shelf for her books.
"I didn't need a program," she says. "I needed a door I could close and neighbors who'd notice if I didn't open it." Nine months later, she's the one who notices.
A converted shipping container full of what neighbors need.
The shipping container at the north end of the courtyard holds a table saw, a set of hand tools, a sewing machine, and a whiteboard where residents sign out equipment and leave notes for each other. Four residents have used it to take on small jobs in the neighborhood. One is now running a deck-repair side business.
The math makes the case.
The emotional case was already made outside. Here's the line item.
Haven · Per Resident
$28,000
one-time build cost per home
- Insulated tiny home, fully built
- Shared courtyard infrastructure
- Tool library + garden access
- On-site support coordinator
Emergency Services · Per Person
$42,000
per year, ongoing, no exit
- ER visits and ambulance calls
- Shelter overflow beds
- Law enforcement response
- Court and processing costs
One Haven home pays for itself in under 8 months.
Every year after that is money the city keeps.
Shot from above, a table that looks like any other table.
Every Friday, someone drags the folding table into the courtyard. There's no signup sheet, no coordinator, no program requirement. Marcus brings whatever he's been testing in his kitchen. Darnell brings hot sauce. Everyone brings a chair.
This is what accountability looks like when it works: not a check-in form, but a potluck where your absence is noticed and your presence is celebrated.
Add a chair to the courtyard.
$28,000 builds one home, one front door, one neighbor. You don't need to fund the whole village — just one light in the window.
$28,000 — Full Home Sponsor
Name a home. Meet your neighbor at move-in.
$5,000 — Garden + Tool Library
The shared infrastructure that makes it a neighborhood.
Any amount — Friday Night Potluck Fund
Groceries, propane, the small things that keep community alive.
Bring Haven to your city.
We've built the playbook. Zoning templates, contractor relationships, intake protocols, and a community model that works. Download the partnership brief and let's talk.